On Monday 04 September 2006 23:25, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Montag, 4. September 2006 22:54 schrieb Craig Bradney: > > On Monday 04 September 2006 21:58, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: > > > Dnia poniedzia?ek, 4 wrze?nia 2006 19:04, Gregory Pittman napisa?: > > > > > those of you who can get hold of c't magazine and can read German > > > > > might be interested in the current issue (19/2006). It contains a > > > > > four page Scribus tutorial on the production of photo books and > > > > > posters (pp. 110-113). Scribus 1.3.3.3 for Win32 and Linux is > > > > > shipped on a CD-ROM which also contains the tutorial files. The > > > > > CD-ROM also offers a collection of 670 free fonts. Haven't checked > > > > > the quality, though. > > > > > > > > I don't think you can worry so much about the quality of the review. > > > > > > AFAIU Christoph was worrying about quality of attached fonts, not > > > review itself :) > > > > They also got the fact wrong that pdflib.cpp from Scribus does not relate > > at all to the PDFLib external library. > > > > Craig > > Be that as it may, the comments in the tutorial were quite positive. What > the author criticised is well known here (tables, non-editable frames in > master pages, missing drop shadows for frames), but he explained the > workarounds. He also mentioned Scribus' ability to have different page > formats in one document (in contrast to QXP and ID).
Luckily, those missing things will all arrive in 1.3.x. > All things considered, this is very good. I mean, _four_ pages in c't, plus > a small article somewhere else in the issue I mentioned. A lot of > companies would gladly pay tons of money for that ... For sure. I'll be buying it tomorrow. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060904/4c53e137/attachment-0001.pgp
